Google introduced WebP in an attempt to speed up the Web, but now the company’s engineers are raising concerns that one of the graphics format’s features will actually slow it down. WebP is designed to compress graphics more efficiently than JPEG, GIF, and PNG. Shrinking file sizes more means data arrives faster, though there can be a penalty of longer times to encode and decode image files
Read MoreBack row, from left, Peachtree Audio Deepblue, Klipsch KMC3, Cambridge Minx Air 200; front Bowers & Wilkins Z2 (Credit: Steve Guttenberg/CNET) The continuing popularity of Bluetooth speakers mystifies me. The under $50 ones sound pretty weak, but they have a good excuse: they’re cheap! Sadly, the $100 models aren’t much better: they sound undernourished next to my $52 Dayton Audio B652 stereo speakers, powered by my $25 Lepai LP-2020A+ stereo amplifier. Before we go any further let’s put aside for a second the question of how BT sounds; the biggest problem with BT speakers is that it’s just one speaker, and can’t fill a room as well as two speakers, spread five or more feet apart
Read MoreIf you know what this is and where it is located, you could be eligible to win a prize in the CNET Road Trip Picture of the Day contest. (Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET) Update (Saturday, 11:48 p.m
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Read MoreFacebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said she had planned to be on a flight that crashed on landing at San Francisco’s main airport Saturday in an accident that reportedly killed two people. Meanwhile, a Samsung executive who was on board very quickly posted an eyewitness shot to the Web. Sandberg posted to her page on the social network that she had originally intended to be on board the Asiana Airlines flight from Seoul, South Korea
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